The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 10

The Caliph, who had wished for some time past to give his Grand Vizier a present, ordered his black slave to bring the pedlar before him at once.

Who acts: Caliph, black slave · What happens: wish, give, order, bring · To what, where: present, Grand Vizier, black slave, pedlar

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, black slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 ordered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wished	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wished	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wished	aux
6	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Caliph	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 past	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 past	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 past	compound
10	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wished	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wished	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 Vizier	nmod:poss
14	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Vizier	amod
15	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 present	det
17	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct
19	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 slave	nmod:poss
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 slave	amod
22	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ordered	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bring	mark
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 ordered	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pedlar	det
26	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obj
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 bring	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past · perfect	the Caliph				for some time past	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for past=Theme
2	give	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here	a present	Vizier's Grand Vizier			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Recipient present=Theme
3	order	past	the Caliph	Vizier's black slave				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Vizier's black slave not said here	the pedlar		before Vizier		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pedlar=Theme before he=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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